Business Intelligence and Analytics

Practicing business intelligence allows your company to transform raw data into sets of insights for targeted business growth. The business intelligence and analytics community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of data scientists, database administrators, business analysts and other data professionals. Find relevant webinars and videos on business analytics, business intelligence, data analysis and more presented by recognized thought leaders. Join the conversation by participating in live webinars and round table discussions.

Mining Machine Data that gets sent from Electrical Vehicle (EV) charging stations can tremendously help in performing both regular, as well as predictive, maintenance. The data is also helpful to better understand the install base and gleaning other valuable business insights.

These business insights are tremendously helpful in reducing support costs and also for identifying new revenue streams.

Join Glassbeam and Gridscape in an engaging and interactive Webinar that discusses the tremendous efficiencies that IOT technologies can bring to EV charging stations.

Mobile is taking over as the pre-eminent way companies connect with customers.

For sales. For service. For feedback. For support. For … everything.

In just 8 years, smartphones have taken over the world. In just 3.5 years, smartphone media consumption has overtaken television. In just 5 years, we have been talking on our phones the same amount, but our data usage has skyrocketed more than 3400%. Mobile commerce has jumped 123% just in the first quarter of this year. It's happening. It's happening right now.

We're taking a hard look at how mobile is the new normal. Your customers expect it. Business demands it. Mobile marketing automation is only used by 1.5% of businesses today -- and those businesses are making a killing because they understand the unique relationships we have grown to expect with our mobile devices.

In this webinar, you'll:

* Learn how psychology meets technology with mobile marketing automation
* Improve customer engagement and retention through marketing efforts
* Get a running start on using the mobile revolution to drive massive engagement

In today’s fast changing IT support environments companies are looking to find ways to reduce cost while, increasing quality of service which are often opposing forces. By understanding IT support metrics, companies can better position themselves to measure success and turn opposition into opportunity.

Join us on Wednesday, July 29th at 2pm EDT and learn about metrics that can help measure your IT support environment’s health, reduce costs and improve your IT support services.

Key Takeaways:
•How to determine the health of your IT Environment
•Identify the top 10 recommended Service Desk Metrics

Cybersecurity is a top concern for IT professionals. Gartner expert Lawrence Orans leads an important discussion of the current cybersecurity landscape. He analyzes recent cybersecurity events, emerging threats, and how new technologies are affecting the security calculus.

Are you looking to consolidate and update your enterprise applications? Would you like to be able to deliver the same curated data sets to multiple analytics and operational systems in parallel? Do you have a proliferation of point-to-point integrations across your enterprise? Are you looking to modernize your architecture to reduce data and application integration complexity? Does it take too long and require retesting each time you want to add or change an application interface?

•Increased data agility from a hub-based publish and subscribe architecture
•Reduced time and cost to add or modify data interfaces
•Accelerated time to application consolidation and modernization
•A data broker to deliver data to multiple analytics systems in parallel
•Self-service data delivery via a web-based tool

Join this webinar with Charles Hughes, Director of Strategic Development at Informatica, and guest speaker John Myers, Managing Research Director from Enterprise Management Associates, to learn about the challenges of evolving data infrastructures and the benefits of a data integration architecture based on a modern publish and subscribe hub-based solution.

Enterprises around the world have embraced OpenStack as their cloud management platform because of its ability to simply and effectively manage shared infrastructure. To quickly realize OpenStack's benefits, rapid deployment of a production cloud that delivers mixed workload capabilities on a solid and dependable foundation is critical.

Join this webinar to learn how agile infrastructure for OpenStack enables you to quickly stand up a dynamic self-service cloud infrastructure so you can easily take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and efficiency of OpenStack.

Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how Agile Infrastructure:

- Extends the core values of cloud: scale, guaranteed performance, automation, high availability and efficiency
- Ensures you deploy OpenStack using a process that's repeatable and error free
- Allows you to run production and test/dev workloads on one storage platform
- Provides higher utilization, better performance and more operational efficiency than legacy solutions

IR's recent acquisition of IQ Services extends Prognosis’ capabilities to include next generation testing of unified communications and contact centers. Join us to get the inside track on how this can benefit your business.

This webinar will discuss strategies to help you save money in the AWS Cloud. From turning systems off at night, to implementing bidding strategies on the spot market, there are many ways in which you can manage and reduce your costs with AWS.

Informatica has been positioned as "a Leader" in Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement*. According to the report, the desire to leverage Archives as a secondary data store for Big Data Analytics is driving the growth of the Structured Data Archiving market. For many though it’s the desire to reduce complexity in the IT landscape, drive down cost and enable records management & compliance teams to gain easy access to the critical data.

Join this webinar to understand how Informatica is helping organisations integrate their legacy data assets into their Big Data Strategies, thus simplifying and reducing the cost of their legacy estates. Also see how this approach is being applied to Live platforms to drive down operational costs and significantly reduce the risk associated with uncontrolled data growth.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, and Victor Gaspar, Business Country Manager for Colombia at GMV (Openbravo Certified Partner), will show how proximity technology is shaping the retail industry and how it is delivering great in-store experiences. We will explore the insights those technologies like beacons provide to the physical store personnel as well as the store management and how they enhance the customer experience. In addition, we will also present the limitations and concerns those technologies have and how you can overcome them.

What Will You Learn?
- Different proximity technology application scenarios and benefits obtained from them.
- Real success story of eBeacons technology used in the flagship office of a Spanish Retail Bank.
- How to use these technologies on top of your commerce solution.

Hadoop has become unavoidable. Companies of all sizes are at different stages of their thoughts on Big Data. Whether you're just starting to explore the platform or you already have several existing clusters, everyone faces the same challenge - to develop its internal expertise.

Specialists of Big Data, Talend, and Hortonworks, watch this webinar to discover how to unify all your data in Hadoop, without specific skills Big Data.

Does your organization have a reliable way to intake project ideas? Do you struggle with how to determine whether project requests align with business strategy? How do you know if the costs will outweigh the benefits?

Join us for a webinar, where we will explore these topics and more. We’ll discuss:

•Providing a standardized idea Input form, making it easier to evaluate potential projects
•How to determine whether ideas align with strategic objectives
•How to determine relative priority across ideas
•The best way to evaluate costs and benefits of high priority ideas
•How to use Idea portfolios for what-if scenarios
•Converting ideas to projects
•Using workflows for Approvals, Action Items and Governance

After discussing these best practices, we’ll use CA PPM show how they can be implemented as a real world, practical solution!

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This event is approved for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credit.

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The new Microsoft Windows 10 platform is an exciting step forward from both a functionality and a security perspective. Senior Product Marketing Manager, Stephen Rose covers the new features of this operating system and what they mean to you as a way of adding additional security to your organization.

Are you taking full advantage of the power of big data? Is it enhancing the data you already have, or simply slowing down your speed to insight? Learn how leveraging Hadoop, one of the world’s most popular big data repositories, can help you:

– add greater context and create a powerful, comprehensive view of the business situation
– integrate big data with traditional enterprise data sources more efficiently
– enable the fastest, most accurate way to discover insights and transform them into business improvements

Join Senior Sales Engineer, Roger Yeh, as he explores the in’s and out’s of Hadoop and how to leverage it to improve your business.

With all the advantages public and private clouds provide today, do you have the comprehensive cloud analytics that goes with it?
• Are you able to coordinate the overall performance of your cloud today, to truly gauge service health and operational efficiencies?
• Have you been able to compare costs of different providers with ease, to rapidly determine trends in quality and reliability?

If these topics are important to you, then join us for this hybrid cloud management session on cloud analytics.

Register for this webinar and learn how to gain full visibility into your organization and make the informed decisions and adjustments in investments that will meet your profitability targets and increase user satisfaction.

Scalding is a scala DSL for Cascading. Run on Hadoop, it’s a concise, functional, and very efficient way to build big data applications. One significant benefit of Scalding is that it allows easy porting of Scalding apps from MapReduce to newer, faster execution fabrics.

In this webinar, Cyrille Chépélov, of Transparency Rights Management, will share how his organization boosted the performance of their Scalding apps by over 50% by moving away from MapReduce to Cascading 3.0 on Apache Tez. Dhruv Kumar, Hortonworks Partner Solution Engineer, will then explain how you can interact with data on HDP using Scala and leverage Scala as a programming language to develop Big Data applications.​

Join this webcast to hear experts from Informatica and Bluewolf discuss how to fix the most common data challenges Salesforce customers face.
You will learn how different companies successfully:
•Cleaned a mature Salesforce org full of dirty data
•Integrated newly acquired companies and divisions quickly
•Created complete customer profiles despite fragmented data

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Join Informatica Cloud and Bluewolf to hear experts discuss how companies are unlocking real value and ROI from their Salesforce investments as reported in the State of Salesforce 2014-15 report. Learn how you can conquer Salesforce data quality problems over the data lifecycle to ensure CRM system data integrity.
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The emergence of Big Data has driven the need for a new data platform within the enterprise. Apache Hadoop has emerged as the core of that platform and is driving transformative outcomes across every industry. Join this webinar for an overview of the technology, how it fits within the enterprise, and gain insight into some of the key initial use cases that are driving these transformations.

Informatica launches the BOST Toolkit for Enterprise Architects. Please join us for a webinar on the details of the BOST Toolkit offering, why Informatica has invested and is launching a solution for Enterprise Architects, and how this offering helps you realize accelerated value in the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform.

Retailers are interested in capturing growing volumes of data to deliver value to their organizations – whether through increased revenue and margin, improved loyalty and consumer intimacy, or back-office optimization of IT processes. As a whole, the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods industries are realizing that Big Data solutions like Hortonworks Hadoop can provide business value, reduce cost, and improve consumer insight.

Join our speakers Eric Thorsen and Krishnan Parasuraman and learn how Hortonworks and Splice Machine can be leveraged to support Systems of Record and the growing field of big data and Hadoop.

- Capitalize on the opportunities that social media presents
- Integrate social data with enterprise data to understand social activities impact on your organization
- Understand customer behavior and improve engagement
- Choose the right platform to consolidate, analyze, and share this information
- Impact business performance and outcomes

If you're an executive in Marketing Operations, Business Analytics, Customer Experience, or IT who wants to tie social media activity to business performance, then this event is for you.

Enhancing a customer experience has become essential for communication service providers to effectively manage customer churn and build a strong, long lasting relationship with their customers. This has become increasingly challenging as customer interactions occur across multiple channels. Understanding customer behavior and how it applies across channels is the key to ensuring the best level of experience is achieved by each customer.

In this webinar Hortonworks and Apigee discuss how service providers can capture and visualize customer behavior across customer interaction points like call center events (IVR and chat) and combine it with network data, to predict customer calls and patterns of digital channel abandonment using Hadoop and predictive analysis and visualization tools..

We will identify ways to develop a 360 degree view across a customer’s household through an HDP Data Lake and visualize customer interaction patterns and predict expected behavior using Apigee Insights to identify and initiate the Next-Best-Action for a customer to ensure a superior level of customer experience.

Cybercrime impacts millions of people around the world. David Finn, Executive Director of the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, gives you a behind the scenes look at how Microsoft is going on the offensive to stop criminals, refer perpetrators to law enforcement, and create a safe digital world.

We are experiencing a growing "clicks to bricks" phenomenon, where pure e-commerce leaders are opening physical stores in an attempt to get closer to their customers and foster loyalty. During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will explore this concept and the challenges faced while highlighting the benefits of this strategy that is being followed by leading online retailers.

What Will You Learn?
- The motivations of pure online retailers to invest in physical stores.
- Technologies that offer the highest impact on physical stores.
- The main challenges faced in the attempt to bridge the offline with the online.

Join us for a look at the more technical aspects of Skype for Business, with a specific focus on Key Health Indicators (KHIs) and Call Quality Methodology (CQM).

John Hand, Global Microsoft Alliance Director, will be joined by Dave Bottomley, Solutions Engineer with 11+ years experience at Microsoft, to provide a more technical deep-dive on how to best manage a Skype for Business environment.

Traditionally support has had a retroactive orientation, with a focus on helping customers with problems that have already occurred and need to be addressed. What if enterprises have access to a support service that proactively monitors their Hadoop infrastructures and, not only identifies potential issues, but also recommends specific solutions and actions? In this webinar, Paul Codding, Hortonworks Product Manager, discusses proactive support and a new class of support service, SmartSense, that has been recently launched. Learn how Hortonworks SmartSense can enhance the value of your support subscription through faster support case resolution, proactive cluster configuration, and long-term cluster optimization.

Digital initiatives are very cross-functional by nature. Gaining and maintaining alignment on priorities can be quite difficult, particularly given the fast pace of retail and siloed nature of most retail organizations. Thus, the drive to achieve business benefits from digital initiatives can be elusive. In this webinar, we will discuss importance of governance and managing digital initiatives as a portfolio.

Attendees will learn:
•Leading practices for driving alignment on digital priorities
•How to ensure digital efforts meet changing business needs and lead to business benefits (both near-term and longer term).

This event qualifies for Project Management Institute (PMI) 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU).

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You already know that data visualization is red hot. Which is why we've scheduled Advanced Data Visualization Part II. To see the recording of Part I, click here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12199/159695.

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.3 represents the latest innovation from across the Hadoop ecosystem, especially in the area of security. With HDP 2.3, enterprises can secure their data using a gateway for perimeter security, provide fine grain authorization and auditing for all access patterns and ensure data encryption over the wire as well as stored on disk. Come and join us for a webinar to learn how the new Hadoop can help secure your data and meet compliance requirements.

Decades of experience in fighting cybercrimes has greatly informed how Microsoft develops products. Michael Quinn (General Manager, Cybersecurity & Data Protection, Microsoft) discusses the features, policies, and practices that make the Microsoft Cloud so secure and set it apart from other options on the market.

We are in an era where data is being used at a bigger scale, from government to philanthropy, business, and even to everyday citizens.

In this webinar, we will answer your burning questions on Big Data and will also discuss the Big Data ephemeralization and current trends in the Big Data movement. The data-driven Caldera will be presented as an agile methodology to help you start your Big Data projects.

We will also show different stories like how we mashed-up data from hundreds of thousands of news articles and other big data sources to tell interesting insights like the falling Oil Prices.

Join Ali Rebaie, one of the top Big Data influencers worldwide who has appeared in several lists of "Who's Who in Big Data" as he shares his insights on:

•The Big Data Ephemeralization.
•From BI to Big Data: Where is the Big Data movement taking us and what about the Data Agora?
•Being “Data-Driven”.
•We all know the alphabet soup, but did you hear about the magical soup of Big Data?
•Learn about the Data-Driven Caldera: an agile methodology to help you start your Big Data projects.
•Telling big stories by running basic data projects

Machine Learning is all about construction and study of systems that can learn from and make predictions on data using predictive analytics. Machine learning has made possible spam filtering, search engines, voice recognition, self driving cars, optical character recognition, etc. This webinar will help you understand how machine learning works.

In the digital transformation of companies, many questions have arisen: how can Business Intelligence meet new business needs? How can Business Intelligence deliver insights in real-time? How can it analyse and scale increasingly growing data? How do you deploy business applications without training or user manuals?

In this webinar, you will learn through case studies how Big Data is transforming business intelligence via a technological transformation and with agile methods and a business-oriented approach.

Implementing Hadoop can be complex, costly, and time-consuming. It can take months to get up and running, and each new user group typically requires their own infrastructure.

This webinar will explain how to tame the complexity of on-premises Big Data infrastructure. Tony Baer, Big Data analyst at Ovum, and BlueData will provide an in-depth look at Hadoop multi-tenancy and other key challenges.

Join us to learn:

- The pitfalls to avoid when deploying Big Data infrastructure
- Real-world examples of multi-tenant Hadoop implementations
- How to achieve the simplicity and agility of Hadoop-as-a-Service – but on-premises

Gain insights and best practices for your Big Data deployment. Find out why data locality is no longer required for Hadoop; discover the benefits of scaling compute and storage independently. And more.

This webcast will give an overview of deploying Hadoop within the organization as a strategic initiative for business advantage. Rather than viewing distributed databases as an incremental solution to an IT problem, Ioana Hreninciuc look at the bigger picture: what can Hadoop do not for the database administrators but for the organization as a whole?

Business users have problems and budgets to fix them, but Hadoop is a technical product sold by technical people. The market for big data intake and analytics is growing but the people who could support this growth more than anyone are the business users, not IT managers. IT is shrinking or in some cases completely outsourced so it becomes very difficult to take bold steps in IT.

It is essential to consider the strategic questions in prioritizing Hadoop and other technologies. This webcast will give a framework and starting point in these issues:

· IT or business user – who benefits more from deploying Hadoop?

· Who could or should bring Hadoop into the organization?

· Is Hadoop really necessary? What are the organization’s alternatives?

· How can you leverage an existing Hadoop deployment from your organization?

· What should a business user know about Hadoop?

· How long does it take to get started with Hadoop?

· Is Hadoop as a Service a reasonable alternative for your organization?

With 82% of all data now having location content, brands cannot afford to ignore the importance of location when gaining insight on the customers, they need to understand where they are, and where they are going to be. With this additional insight, clients not only understand the attributes of existing data, but also gain insight into what influences customers.

In essence: data with location gives context. Combine context with influence, and there is Insight

Most companies are wrestling internally to get clear and valuable data/insights to predict the change that could affect their business. Traditional BI could be improved on with the help of Data Analytics, while at the same time Data Analytics needs to be fed by BI. More and more BI and real-time analytics are converging and supporting each other to deliver valuable insights and critical reports.
Let’s look together at some tips and real life examples.

Enhancements in Hadoop 2.x releases, network bandwidth improvements, increased compute cores, and higher density compute are driving Hadoop technology to an inflection point. Providing storage resources that deliver performance and capacity with low power consumption is essential to keeping your Hadoop infrastructure running efficiently. In this webinar you’ll learn how to identify common challenges in Hadoop deployments and the Flash-based solution architectures to help avoid or alleviate these challenges.